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The Rise of Genetic Genealogy
CC Moore is a prominent genetic genealogist. She first got into genealogy while making a family tree for her niece as an engagement gift. Her brother-in-law always told everyone he was part American Indian because his parents had told him so. He asked Moore to help him learn a bit more about this. Cringingly, though, she found he did have black ancestry and was in fact descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
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